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...Beauchards first try Western medicine but balk at the prospect of dangerous brain surgery. Instead they began exploring alternatives like Macrobiotics, an Asian-based system of diet and spirituality. These efforts result in short-lived successes, with the Beauchards leading increasingly isolated lives and Jean-Christofe sinking deeper into anger and illness. By the end of book one the author's parents are "lost" amid the many dead-end, hocus-pocus cures, Florence the younger sister has attempted suicide, and the author has locked himself inside the armor of a twelve-year-old cynic...
...whatever else it is they do. The World Cup is mildly entertaining because you get to see them sublimate their little issues by kicking a ball at one another, sort of like watching your children backyard-wrestle. Senegal beats France, and the Senegalese throw a huge party venting their anger over two centuries of French colonialism. Imagine how much fun it is for anyone to act superior to the French, and multiply that by Senegal. And last Friday England and Argentina got to work out whatever their deal was with those islands. The problem for us, however, is that...
WHAT'S THE SECRET TO MANAGING ANGER? I try to let off a little steam before it sort of explodes, rather than keep...
...many titles. There were those he won - a record 154 singles and doubles championships - and those he dished out, from "jerk" (very mild) to the more customary "f_____g a_____e." Fiery. In your face. Explosively perfectionistic. That was McEnroe then, and that's still McEnroe now. Maturity - and anger-management therapy - have mellowed the 43-year-old tennis great's legendary temper, but still, he says, "there's probably times every day where I feel like I lose control." Judging by his new memoir, Serious (Little, Brown; 352 pages) - the title alludes to his catchphrase, "You cannot be serious...
...based in Vietnam at war and at peace. The opposite of a jaded war correspondent, Lamb captures the country he came to love mostly through its people: an eager young waiter who is making his way through Jane Austen (in English); a handicapped veteran who confesses to no anger except with himself; a young Vietnamese-Australian lawyer who works tirelessly to help resettle boat people; and 11 returning G.I.s who swap sneakers and old pictures with the men they once fought against...